Re: how portable is fchdir?

[Paul Eggert]

Christopher Faylor <address@hidden> writes:

> >It's broken in Cygwin, at least for 1.3.6-6.  See:
> 
> Quoting a year-old message hardly qualifies as "broken on cygwin".

A one-year-old bug report is recent by Autoconf standards.  We are
still worried about porting to systems that are a decade or more old.

> >None of these systems are exactly spring chickens, except for Cygwin.
> 
> and the version of cygwin that you are referring to isn't exactly a
> spring chicken either.

It is quite a bit younger than the other systems I mentioned.  The
first mention that I see of it on deja.com is 2001-12-20.  By
contrast, SunOS 4.1.4's first mention is 1993-02-26, AIX 3.2.5's first
mention is 1993-02-17, and IRIX 5.3's first mention is 1994-01-16.
By the standards of these other systems, Cygwin 1.3.6-6 is indeed a
spring chicken.